Oakland stoners Saviours have been indulging in some Accelerated Living, a slightly cleaner take on their blend of heavy thrashy metal’s aesthetic high points.

Thanks to Obiat, your search for the musical equivalent of a hundred magic mushrooms and a bottle of whiskey is over. Eye Tree Pi; turn on, tune up, space out.

Part Chimp may be aping (arf!) Micheal Jackson by titling their latest album Thriller, but its sludgy noise rock stylings are a little underwhelming.

The kings of sludge best mind their crowns, because Brooklyn’s Hull are eyeing their thrones. Sole Lord is slo-mo post-metal done just the way it should be.

It’s difficult to go terribly wrong with the Greatest Hits of Black Sabbath… but you’d still be better off investing in the first four albums than this one.

Danish stoners Fuzz Manta are blowing more than Smokerings on their debut album; female-fronted fuzz rock hasn’t sounded this good in years.

Plucky genre-mashing Canucks Cancer Bats return to Portsmouth for their third appearance, and totally own the stage on their first headliner.

Misery Speaks have made it to album number three with Disciples of Doom, but its nostalgia-tinted melodic death cliches are nothing to get excited about.

Brooklyn prog-metal bruisers Scribes of Fire throw in everything but the metaphorical kitchen sink on their self-released debut album, Zauberer.

Sludgy doomish riff-rock with psychedelic wig-outs, epic fretboard excess and its tongue somewhat in its cheek. Intrigued by Stinking Lizaveta’s Sacrifice & Bliss? So you should be.